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Hi there,
I'm currently evaluating CloudBerry Online Backup as our offsite backup plan. I have installed the trial and have got a backup plan working, everything I've seen so far I liked. My only concern is that the backup plan/storage seems to be tied to the machine which is doing the backups to the S3 cloud. I installed the same trial version of software on a different machine and connected to our S3 account but I couldn't see any of the backup files. In case there were a fire or similar disaster and the local machine with CloudBerry installed on it were destroyed, am I able to and how could I do a restore from S3 to a new machine? This is pretty much a make or break question.
Cheers!
Tosh.
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Hi Tosh,
You have to run "Synchronize Repository" to sync S3 storage data with the local repository. The Online Backup uses its own local repository for storing history details and a list of backed up files (it improves working with S3 storage and reduced number of requests). Go to Tools | Advanced: click "Synchronize Repository", select a right S3 account to sync. When sync complete, you will see the files on Backup Storage view and will be able to restore them.
Thanks,
Juli, CloudBerryLab Team
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Hi Juli,
I am in the same situation as Tosh. I am evaluating ONline backup server, and need to be able to restore files from another computer in case the computer being backed up dies. I found that after running "Synchronize Repository", I still don't see the correct backup files. This is because the computer names are different. For example, if the computer being backed up is called "SERVER" and the computer I want to use to restore the files is called "COMPUTERA", when I perform the "Sync Repository" on COMPUTERA, I do not see the files that were backed up from SERVER. I think this is because the program is looking in the "CBB_COMPUTERA" folder in my S3 bucket, when the backed up files reside instead in folder "CBB_SERVER". Is there any way to get Cloudberry Backup to restore the files in "CBB_SERVER" while running on a computer other than SERVER?
Thanks,
Edward
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Hi Edward,
In order to see the files from "CBB_SERVER" you should have a proper backup prefix (= "SERVER") for the S3 account. Go to File | Amazon S3 Account... | Edit S3 account (or Add new): click "Advanced settings" to set a backup prefix (Note: it goes without "CBB_", just "SERVER").
Please let me know if it didn't help.
Thanks,
Juli, CloudBerryLab Team
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Hi Juli,
Thanks, your solution worked! I didn't notice the Advanced Settings...
-Edward
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